Breast cancer is the most common cancer occurring among women in the United States. The incidence of breast cancer increases with age, rising sharply after age 40. Nearly 80% of invasive breast cancers in the United States occur among women 50 years of age and older. Some 14% (and rising) of all women in America will develop breast cancer, which is behind only lung cancer in its mortality rate.
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Main recommendations: Change In Clothing Habits - Low/Decreased Fat Diet - Increased Fruit/Vegetable Consumption - DIM (di-indolmethane)/I3C (Indole-3-Carbinol)
Increased Risk of Breast Cancer is suggested partly by:- Increased Risk of Problems Caused By Being Overweight
Women with 'apple-shaped' bodies may be more likely to develop breast cancer than their 'pear-shaped' counterparts. Harvard researchers studied breast cancer risk among postmenopausal women who had never used hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and found even greater risks, with larger-waisted women appearing to be 88% more likely to develop breast cancer than smaller-waisted women. HRT use can increase the risk of breast cancer, regardless of waist size. Exactly why fat distribution affects breast cancer risk is not fully understood but perhaps, the researchers speculate, upper or central body fat is deeper and may be closer to the important organs and glands that regulate hormone balance than fat in the other areas of the body. These hormonal changes may be responsible for the increased risk of the cancer.
[American Journal of Epidemiology December 1999;150: pp.1316-1324] |
- Bacterial Dysbiosis (web)
| Epidemiologic and experimental data implicate putrefactive dysbiosis in the development of colon cancer and breast cancer. A putrefaction dysbiosis is accompanied by an increase in fecal concentrations of various bacterial enzymes which metabolize bile acids to tumor promoters and deconjugate excreted estrogens, raising the plasma estrogen level. |
- Progesterone Low or Estrogen Dominance (web)
| One study reported that women with the highest levels of estrogen were twice as likely to develop breast cancer as those with the lowest levels. [Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 17th April 2002] |
- Less likely possibilities: High Female Testosterone Level (web) - Endometriosis (web)
...and partly by the following:- Extended bra wearing
Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer (husband-and-wife authors of Dressed to Kill, Avery Press, 1995) have discovered a possible trigger for breast cancer in interviews of 4,730 women in five major US cities, conducted between 1991 and 1993. They found that:- Women who wore their bras for 24 hours per day had a 3 out of 4 chance of developing breast cancer (their study included 2056 subjects for the cancer group and 2674 for the standard group).
- Women who wore bras more than 12 hour per day but not to bed had a 1 out of 7 risk.
- Women who wore their bras less than 12 hours per day had a 1 out of 152 risk.
- Women who wore bras rarely or never had a 1 out of 168 chance of getting breast cancer.
The World Health Organization calls chemical toxins the primary cause of cancer. Poisons accumulating in breast tissue are normally flushed by clear lymph fluid into large clusters of lymph nodes nestling in the armpits and upper chest. Because lymphatic vessels are very thin, they are extremely sensitive to pressure and are easily compressed. Chronic minimal pressure on the breasts can cause lymph valves and vessels to close.
A look at the breast cancer rate in countries where bra-wearing is not the norm shows a very low incidence of breast cancer. Japanese women living in Japan, where bra-wearing is uncommon, have a very low incidence of breast cancer; however in second generation Japanese-American women, the breast cancer rate sky-rockets to match that of the Western world.
The overall increase found between 24-hour wearing and not wearing at all was 125-fold. |
- Breast cancer in family members
- Low aerobic exercise level
| Women who exercise have a lower risk of breast cancer, which could relate to better lymphatic circulation due to more breast movement. |
- Being tall
The findings from a Danish study of more than 117,000 women confirm that height is a risk factor for breast cancer and show that it is growth in childhood that has the greatest influence. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (2004), could help explain one of the greatest puzzles of breast cancer - why the disease has seen a global increase over the previous 50 years.
An increase in milk drinking has been suggested as a factor behind the large increase in average heights in Japan. As the Japanese adopted a more Western diet in the two decades after World War II, 12-year-old girls gained 6 inches (15cm) in height on average. That gain has been paralleled 30 years later by a two-fold increase in breast cancer in the same generation of women.
The findings show that those women whose peak year of growth occurred between the ages of 13 and 14 had a 16% lower risk of breast cancer than those whose peak growth occurred between 10 and 11. Girls who were tallest by the age of 14 had the highest risk. |
- Discontinued low-carb diet
| Women with the highest intake of animal fat seem to have over a 75% greater risk of developing breast cancer. [Journal of the National Cancer Institute 95 (2003): p.1079] |
- Being female
| Lifetime risk for American women climbed from 1-in-12 in 1970 to 1-in-7 in 2005. |
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